Hello everyone!
I wasn't sure whether I should post this under the News section or not so I'm posting here.

This past weekend I went on a very exciting trip to attend a science conference with my fellow classmates. During the conference I had the opportunity to attend a meeting with Juan Sepulveda who's the Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans (I know it's a long title). He works in the department of education so he works directly with Obama and the Secretary of Education Mr. Duncan. He told me that the reason why DREAM Act was so much on the down low was because they think it is best for there not to be much more talk about it (mainly because they don't want opposing groups to start lobbying against it) but he guaranteed it WILL pass.
Health reform remains #1 priority right now.
DREAM will NOT pass as a stand-alone bill. It will pass together with another Immigration Legislation they are strategizing now. This is because if DREAM passes by itself, they think it will be hard to pass another immigration legislation after that.

So don't worry, they don't talk about dream because they don't want any negativity about it on the media not because they forgot about it.

I heard all this straight from a White House insider so I was very excited to share this news, although it is nothing we already didn't know.

After talking to him for a while I agreed on working with him as he is trying to get community involvement in promoting higher education, I am very excited because I might get to fly out to Washington and meet Obama in the White House and hopefully talk about DREAM with him, but I'll keep you guys posted on that!